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James Isaac Copeland (1910-1995) was a
historian and the director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University
of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967-1975. This collection contains subject files and other materials
documenting the life of J. Isaac Copeland. Papers relate chiefly to Copeland's personal
life,
civic service, and activities in the historical profession.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as
stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the J. Isaac Copeland Papers #4455, Southern Historical
Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from James Isaac Copeland of Chapel Hill, N.C., November 1986, April 1990,
May 1992,
and December 1993. Additions from the estate of Isaac Copeland in March 1997 (Acc.
97034) and
from Dorothy McSwain through George B. Tindall in January 1999 (Acc. 98305). Addition
of
September 1999 (Acc. 98443) transferred from University Archives.

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State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
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J. Isaac Copeland (1910-1995), a native of Clinton, S.C., was graduated from Presbyterian
College in 1931. Copeland then entered George Peabody College for Teachers in 1932,
where he
earned a B.S. in Library Science and an M.A. in history. In 1936, Copeland became
the library
director at Furman University. He returned to George Peabody College in 1942 and remained
there
for more than six years. He then became the head of the documents department in the
Library of
the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he earned his Ph.D. in history.
In 1952,
Copeland returned to George Peabody College as the head of the library and a history
professor.
In 1967, Copeland became the director of the Southern Historical Collection and a
history
professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he remained until
1975.
Copeland died in 1995.

Papers documenting the life of J. Isaac Copeland. The papers relate
chiefly to Copeland's personal life, civic service, and activities as an
archivist, librarian, and historian at
various institutions including the Southern Historical Collection at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.